Quicken crashes system

[Jeff]

I installed the new Quicken Deluxe 2005 on my XP Home SP-2 system and tried
to use it. But after I loaded it with accounts, Quicken crashes repeatedly
bringing the whole system down. Crashes in a database are obviously
something to avoid especially a financial database.

I am starting to thing this software is terribly written. No other program
crashes my system except this new Quicken. I have a Pentium 4, 2.66Ghz with
516 RAM so I do not think it is my PC.

Has anyone else found problems with Quicken on XP?

 

[Kevin]

Is the software compatible with SP2? There should be information at the
Quicken website.

 

[Steve N.]

I installed the new Quicken Deluxe 2005 on my XP Home SP-2 system and tried
to use it. But after I loaded it with accounts, Quicken crashes repeatedly
bringing the whole system down. Crashes in a database are obviously
something to avoid especially a financial database.

I am starting to thing this software is terribly written. No other program
crashes my system except this new Quicken. I have a Pentium 4, 2.66Ghz with
516 RAM so I do not think it is my PC.

Has anyone else found problems with Quicken on XP?

Intuit software is crap and always has been. They replace DLL files with
code a trained monkey could have written better.

Steve

 

[Kevin]

My Quicken 2001 Basic runs just fine in XP. Never had a problem with it at
all. Of any kind.

 

[Steve N.]

My Quicken 2001 Basic runs just fine in XP. Never had a problem with it at
all. Of any kind.

Good for you, I am honestly happy for you.

In my experience (over 20 years) I have yet to see an installation of
any Intuit software product that didn't have to be bit-twiddled to hell
and back before it and other co-existent software worked correctly. My
advice stands; use something else. Intuit is DLL hell. You lucked out.

Steve

 

[John Doue]

Good for you, I am honestly happy for you.

In my experience (over 20 years) I have yet to see an installation of
any Intuit software product that didn't have to be bit-twiddled to hell
and back before it and other co-existent software worked correctly. My
advice stands; use something else. Intuit is DLL hell. You lucked out.

Steve

Steve,

My experience with Intuit goes back to version 3.0 Dos. I would qualify
your judgement by saying that since Intuit dropped its Dos version (8),
the quality of its software has been going steadily south. For that
reason, I am sticking to the version that worked best for me (99). Still
not perfect, some bugs, but always never a problem affecting the
integrity of my data. Today, I wonder whether Money is better in this
regard but find no reason to switch. Do you know any other finance
manager better written but not only for expert accountants?

 

[Jeff]

I too am getting the idea that Intuit just seems to have problems with all
its software. The only reason I am trying Quicken is because it came free
with TurboTax - which also gave me trouble. I've already returned the
TurboTax and moved to TaxCut which never gave me trouble.

Does anyone know if MS Money is more dependable?

 

[Leythos]

In my experience (over 20 years) I have yet to see an installation of
any Intuit software product that didn't have to be bit-twiddled to hell
and back before it and other co-existent software worked correctly. My
advice stands; use something else. Intuit is DLL hell. You lucked out.

With my almost 30 years of design and computing experience, I have yet
to see more than 10 systems that intuit required any "bit-twiddling" to
install and run properly. I service many accounting firms, all running
at least 4 versions of Quicken and have yet to find one that was a
problem to install/maintain/run.

What I have found is people having problems with Quicken that were also
having virus/trojan problems or running on flakey hardware, or other
user induced problems.

I'm not defending Intuit, I use QuickBooks myself, but I don't see your
issues in the real world environment.